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sets of fresh eggs, numbering three and four respectively were taken 

 on June 11, 1913; the male incubating one and the female the other. 

 Both birds when disturbed fluttered oft" the nest like other sandpipers. 

 The nests were cavities on small mounds of tundra lined with dry 

 willow leaves. 



A downy young with the male was taken at Cape Serdze, July 16, 

 1913. Its plumage agrees absolutely with that of viinuta as described 

 by Sharpe, in the Catalogue of birds of the British Museum, 24, p. 541. 

 The shorter interscapulars which are just showing through the down 

 in this specimen, are black with rufous margins, the longer have 

 white edges with a slight mixture of rufous. 



Pisobia minutilla (Vieillot). 



LEAST SANDPIPER. 



At Demarcation Point, on June 5, 1914, 1 saw three small sandpipers 

 flying east that I am convinced were this species. 



Pisobia damacensis (Horsfield). 



LONG-TOED STINT. 



This uncommon bird was observed by us at Capes Shipunski and 

 Zhipanov, Kamchatka. At the former locality three were seen and 

 a pair taken on May 21, 1913. Several were seen at Cape Zhipanov, 

 on May 25, 1913, and a female taken. Two females from Copper 

 Island taken May 25, — , were purchased. 



Pisobia temminckii (Leisler). 

 temminck's stint. 



A few were seen at Cape Serdze, July 17*and 18, 1913, where a 

 series of adults and downy young was secured . 



Pisobia pectoralis (Say). 



PECTORAL sandpiper. 



x\lthough this is a common bird throughout Arctic Alaska in 

 general, it bred very sparingly in the vicinity of Humphrey and De- 

 marcation Points. 



